WEBVTT KID ANDTHEY NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITHHIM.WHAT REALLY HAPPENED INSIDE THISHOME ON ST. CLAIR AVENUE LASTAUGUST REMAINS SOMEWHAT OF AMYSTERY.ACCORDING TO THIS INCIDENT LOG,AND NOT HEALTHY POLICE FOUNDFOWLER AGEBROAD UNRESPONSIVESUFFERING FROM HEAD TRAUMA.HE DIED LATER THAT SHE DIE DAYSLATER THE HOSPITAL.>> THERE LITERALLY WAS A HOLE INTHE DRYWALL THE SIZE OF THEGRANDFATHERS HAD.EMILY: NOW MORE THAN SEVENMONTHS LATER AGEN BROAD'SGRANDSON HAS BEEN CHARGED WITHMURDER, RECKLESS HOMICIDE ANDFELONY ASSAULT.>> HIS MOTHER DIED IN 2014 FROMAN OVERDOSE AND HIS DAD DIED INTWO DOZEN 16 FROM A DRUGOVERDOSE IN THE GRANDFATHER HASBEEN THE KIDS GUARDIAN FOR MOSOF HIS LIFE.EMILY: THE PASTOR AT IMMANUELPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CLIFTONSAYS AGENBROAD WAS A DEACON.NEIGHBORS TELL WLWT THE GRANDSONWOULD OFTEN FIGHT WITHAGENBROAD.DID EVERYTHING HE THOUGHT WASRIGHT TO HELP WHEN HE WAS NOTGETTING THROUGH.>> I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED INTHAT HOUSE.I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THEREIS FAULT ON BOTH SIDES OF THEFENCE.EMILY: A MEMBER AT THE FAMILY'SCHURCH SAYS THAT 13-YEAR-OLD BOYWAS A CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNING.HIS PASTOR TOLD ME THISAFTERNOON HE TRIED TO VISIT HIMAT THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERAND WAS UNABLE TO.

13-year-old behind bars accused of killing grandfather

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Updated: 12:21 AM CDT Mar 15, 2017

MOUNT HEALTHY, Ohio —

People in an Ohio neighborhood said they saw the escalating situation between a grandfather and grandson.

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They said the two fought almost every day.

Now, the 13-year-old grandson is charged with killing his grandfather.

Police said the grandpa had custody of the teenager after his parents both died of drug overdoses.

WLWT uncovered there were many calls to the home.

"The whole thing is, it was a sad situation," Steve Wagner said.

Just across from Wagner's home on St. Clair Avenue sits a dark, empty house where Mount Healthy police said a boy, who was 12 years old at the time, killed his grandfather in August.

Police said Fowler Agenbroad, 80, took a blow to the head and when they found him, he wasn't responding.

A police incident log shows the teen was trasnported to Cincinnati Children's Hospital for a hand injury.

"He helped out with the kid. He was always there for the kid. I mean, that's the sad part about it, and the kid never recognized it," Wagner told WLWT.

Police said Agenbroad had custody of the teen after both of the boy's parents died.

Neighbor Kim Hart said it was a toxic situation.

"I don't know what happened in that house, but I want people to know there's fault on both sides of the fence," Hart said.

Neighbors said the grandpa and grandson often fought.

"There's plenty of times where they've got back to the house or the kid wants to go outside and play, and I mean even the grandfather, he'd be yelling back at him," Wagner said.

Hart said she could hear the arguing and fighting from her aunt's home next door.

"Everything the child did, the grandfather would blame his son, the child's father, you're going to be like him," she said.

Prosecutor Joe Deters spoke about the severity of the case Tuesday afternoon on Newsradio 700 WLW.

"Literally, we believe that this grandfather's head may have gone through a wall," Deters said.

WLWT was the only station in court as the teen and his attorney denied charges of murder, reckless homicide and felonious assault.

Police incident logs WLWT uncovered show repeated calls to the home for domestic violence, a missing juvenile and a juvenile problems.

Neighbors said it was all just too much for Agenbroad and the signs were missed by the system.

"They failed the grandfather, they failed the child," Hart said.

The judge ruled the 13-year-old will continue to be detained at least until the next hearing.

Investigators and prosecutors said this case has taken months to build because of the nature and severity of the charges.